Top 10 Best Retro Lunch Boxes

Containing nothing more than some chocolate sandwiches, a banana and a small chocolate rolls. That was my lunch box! But having recently got my little boy a new minions lunch box to goto school with I started to think back about the lunch boxes that I had as a child, and some of them are still very cool indeed…

I forget who said something like this buy I love the quote: “You have to look into the past to see the future.” Well, that is certainly true today. If you are looking for retro lunch boxes for kids, but in a style they would be still happy to take to school then this has to be the one for you because Transformers has never been so popular as it is now.

While looking around I was offered quite a few of these Thundercat retro lunch boxes wholesale, well let me tell you this: That means they are knock off! Only very few of any of the lunchboxes you see here will exist, and that means that all of them will cost the earth to buy them with some of them being £500+

This retro tin lunch box brings back a million happy memories of watching the Muppets on a Saturday night. Back then they were mainstream entertainment and were everywhere. I just love the edging around the tin, it just gives it a touch of vintage coolness.

Growing up I always wanted to be a Duke of Hazzard County, but living here in Wales, UK it was never going to happen. Looking back I wondered why all my family used to sit down and watch this. Well, there was the car jumps for me, Daisy Duke for dad, and Bo & Luke Duke for mum. It really did tick all the boxes!

If you are looking for a retro lunch boxes with thermos this one from snoopy has to be a very popular choice indeed. With its little metal tin in the shape of Snoopys house! But thinking back on the old style thermos soup holders, didn’t they used to have glass in them?

As with this lovable Gremlins lunch box and indeed any of the lunchboxes you see in this post, you do have to be aware of cheap reproduction lunch boxes. Often plastic these are often much cheaper than the true original ones. These are not just lunchboxes people, they were works of art!

Rainbow Brite Retro Lunchbox

3 – Rainbow Brite

When it comes to retro plastic lunch boxes this one is a real Bobby dazzler. Is it sad that I used to watch these avidly even though I knew it was for girls? Well I used to like care-bears as well so I suppose that this isn’t so bad.

If you are looking for retro lunch boxes for sale then plastic is definitely the way to go. This Q-bert one is still going to set your back a fair old penny, but when it comes to videogame-fondness the little bouncing ball has to be right up there with the Sonic and Super Mario’s.

Vintage retro lunch boxes do not get any more vintage than this in terms of videogame licences. Back in its day, Atari slapped their game licence on just about everything and this epic lunchbox was one of them. Nowadays they are worth more money than an entire lunch truck!